Yirrkala drawings / edited by Cara Pinchbeck with essays by Andrew Blake, Howard Morphy and John Stanton
- Bib ID:
- 6391637
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with the University of Western Australia, [2013]
- ©2013
- 174 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, map, portraits, photographs ; 30 x 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781741741032
- Summary:
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In 1946-47 the senior ceremonial leaders of the Yirrkala region produced 365 vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Held by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, the works have never been shown in any great number. In an unexpected palette of brilliant red, blue, yellow, green and black, they depict in exquisite detail the complexities of Yolngu life and cultural inheritance. They include works by those who became leading artists, including Mawalan and Wandjuk Marika, Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Narritjin Maymuru and Wongu Mununggurr. The descendants of these artists continue to produce artworks, and a selection of these will also be displayed.
- Notes:
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- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 December 2013 - 23 February 2014 and the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 12 April - 20 July 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 168-169) and index.
- Subject:
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- Berndt, Ronald M. (Ronald Murray), 1916-1990 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions
- Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions
- Berndt Museum of Anthropology -- Exhibitions
- Yolngu (Australian people) -- Art -- Exhibitions
- Art, Yolngu -- Exhibitions
- Drawing, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Yirrkala -- Exhibitions
- Drawing, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Yirrkala (N.T.) -- Exhibitions
- Art - Drawing - Crayon drawing
- Art - Artists
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Exhibited:
- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 December 2013 - 23 February 2014 and the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 12 April - 20 July 2014
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2013
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